how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

You'll be glad too, when the end comes.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

If you've had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot